hello and welcome back to real English
with real teachers we have a special
treat today we're here with the lovely
Lucy from English with Lucy
hello everyone hi Lucy how are you fine
thanks how are you I'm very well thank you
thank you for having me on your channel thank
you for coming i thought there were two
of you is this sort of weird ploy to
get me alone
Oh sh** Charlie hello mate charlie i'm here with
Lucy from English with Lucy, I'm at
the studio man ahh I thought it was today
yeah where are you i'm in the hospital
what do you mean you're in the hospital
i dislocated my shoulder when I was skiing and I dislocated it it's so painful
I'm so sorry
he's had a skiing accident oh no poor Charlie
ahh Lucy's so lovely you'd love to meet her
yeah I was really looking forward to meeting her as well. Charlie Baxter!
I've gotta go I'm being called
Alright man I'll speak to you later
oh say hello to Lucy hello? He's gone
ahh that's so rude. So today
we're going to be interviewing Lucy and
it's the first time I've met Lucy I want
to get to know her a little bit and
I want you guys to know her as well turn
the subtitles on this is going to be a
conversational English video so if that's what
you're looking for and you want to
practice your listening skills you're in
the right place
so Lucy where are you from I am from
bedfordshire which is funnily enough where
you are from as well. It is yeah. How crazy is that?
that is amazing
well yeah i'm from a small village
in the county of Bedfordshire ok and what do you
well I am an English
teacher online so i make youtube videos
kind of like what you guys are doing as well
but I've been doing it a little bit longer than
you have
okay when did you start? I started in
January 2016 so that was just over a
year ago
yeah i started when i was living in
London and then it all
started to take off
wow amazing it took off and Lucy what
were you like in school i'm sure.. what
was your kind of behavior like
when you're good girl or a bit bad?
ok well up to the age of 12 I was very
well behaved and then i moved to a girls
school and that's when I started to
rebel a little bit
I did get in a spot of trouble and
then I actually became ill for two years
i got i caught glandular fever and some
people might know that as mononucleosis
as well and I was ill for two years so
my behavior obviously changed i became good
again my grades went up and then
when I went into sixth form which is the
last two years of high school and my
grades went down again and i discovered
partying and boys and then ahh those boys
no not many boys and normal acceptable
number of boys sure and what was the
worse trouble you got in to at school do you remember
anything really bad that you did?
yes i'm wondering which one I can say
that's appropriate I did get into
a little fight I had been bullied for a
while and I
managed to end it by hitting someone it's
not the correct thing to do and and yeah it
actually sorted it out
so violence isn't the answer but it's part
of the solution sometimes
it sounds like you solved it yeah
good job
ok and now I have a strange question for
you if someone was to give you an
elephant and say look Lucy this is
your elephant now you can do what
you like with him and his name is Harry
you can't sell Harry and you can't give
away
you have to keep it what would you do
with Harry the elephant? ok
is it a male elephant? yes I was
going to milk it but obviously that's
not
ok i would probably sell
can you milk an elephant? I've heard they have pink
milk or maybe that's hippos
pink milk? Yeah 'cos there's actually blood in the milk
I think what I would do with
the elephant would be I would I would
make a business out of it so I would
probably sell elephant rides around
Bedfordshire 'cos yeah I can't sell him
but I can make money out of it
ok good OK cool so you're quite in
to business?
I like business i'm interested in
business yeah and what got you into
business?
well i did a degree in marketing and
really ever since i was a kid i always
used to I used to love watching the
adverts on TV more than the actual TV
programs I used to wait for the adverts
to come on the ad breaks and I used to
look at the advert and try and work out
where they were lying to me and like
analyse them a bit deeper and that's when I
thought when i'm older i want to make
adverts and and sell things and and that
that's you know what I did at
University and then I got a chance to
fuse everything I love I love marketing
i love social media and I love English
the push it all together and it's
what I'm doing now English with Lucy
fantastic and you said you want to spot
their lies but that doesn't mean you're a liar
because I see your videos and you seem
very honest and having met you today you
seem like a
really genuine honest person I think I
it's really nice to see
that even though you've had a good amount
of success on Youtube Thanks you yeah I
always think that it's really important
to stay genuine and stay honest because if
you're not you are going to get caught
out you are going to get caught out and
yeah i would say Lucy on camera is
very very similar to Lucy off camera would
you say? I really would maybe I speak a little
more slowly
yeah I think so yeah what would be the
title of your autobiography me my
elephant? i know what I'd call it i'd call it
Idioms and idiots it's basically my
whole life dealing with idiots and
discussing idioms. Who are these idiots?
ex-boyfriends ok no my ex-boyfriend is lovely
he knows that
just in case you're watching
everyone has to go
through a couple of idiots in their life
romantically and non-romantically
yeah absolutely yeah what would yours be caled
have you thought about this?
no no I wish I had your way and that's
why i love elephants so much are you an
elephant's and another really don't be
i'll just call it 'be' I think yeah
'Exist' .. OK.. yeah 'cos that's all we need
to do. We don't need to put
pressure on ourselves, we just need to be
exactly yeah and we've succeeded in
being human
yeah we just existed. What is your favorite nineties
jam or nineties tune my favorite
nineties tune i would say it would be
any of the S Club 7 songs i was obsessed
it would probably be reach that might even
be early 2000s reach for the stars climb
every mountain high and... I've got a sore
throat so i'm not going to sing. yeah
we'll leave that what was the last gift you gave to
somebody? it was my brother's 18th
birthday on the day before yesterday so
on the 21st of February my
brother George and I gave him a gorgeous
Aspinal of London wallet. wow.
and also an ID holder so he can have his
Oyster card and tap in as well and I got
it done with his initials on it
as well. That's a lovely present, yeah I'm guessing
hopefully he'll have it fr the rest of his life
yeah yeah I hope so. They wear quite
easily wallets
I have to get rid of my wallet every
kind of year. Hopefully this one will last.
What's the last thing you watched on
TV. Hidden killers of the Edwardian home
by dr. Suzannah Lipscomb, who's, i don't know
if i said that right. She's like a sexy
historian she's beautiful
and she does really interesting
documentaries so if you're looking for good
one
we'll put it down below I guess
check it out what's the funniest thing
that has happened to you lately?
The funniest thing that happened to me
lately?!
Okay, it wasn't funny at the time, but i
was at my neighbour's funeral and my poor
neighbour she was such an amazing woman
91 I think, or 92 and sadly passed away and
we were very close to her and she used to
communicate with my Mum through letters
through our letter box and she once wrote
this beautiful poem called
happiness and it was basically all the
things that made her happy like
happiness is the smell of granery bread
the taste of something... it was really
lovely and we sent that card to her
family, saying all you might want this and
they said to my Mum would you mind
reading at a funeral and my Mum said no
because she's terrible at funerals so I
said look Mum just offer just put it out
there that if if you want me to read it
on your behalf I can do that
never heard back, normal, I mean she has
grandchildren anyway. Got to the service
the funeral service... 15 minutes until it
started and opened the booklet and it was
like a reading by Lucy Earl and I was like
NOOO. I didn't have the poem, I didn't know
what to do! I ran back home luckily the
Church was near my house.
Ran back home. Thought maybe i need to
write one. Happiness is gin 'n' tonics and
and sausage dogs cos' that's what I like. But in the end
found a picture of it on my iPad. Quickly copied
it out, ran back into church and
like just, you know managed to read it
and... Wow! Uh, so that was funny but at the
time it pretty stressful petrifying yeah
cos' you know it's a funeral. Amazing that you
considered making up some lines
yeah I didn't know what to do yeah yeah
happiness is a big gin and tonic yeah and a
cigarette
what's your what's your best tip for
becoming fluent in a language let's say
English the number one tip is get a
boyfriend or girlfriend that speaks the
language that you want to speak
obviously not achievable that's how I
became fluent in Spanish cos I had a Spanish
boyfriend
apart from that it is immersion and
imitation so immerse yourself in the language
whether that's going over there or always
having the radio on I've done a video
about how to improve listening and
speaking alike so you can check that out
but really imitation so you want to
copy what native people say you want to
copy one native people say so the way
they they move their mouth and create
vowel sounds the way they like word
order set phrases lots of things cos you did
it with spanish right yeah did you
imitate your ex a lot
yes was quite funny because he had a bit
of a potty mouth so I'm very yeah
British English and then in Spanish I'm
like Andalusian yeah I've met a lot
of spanish people with potty mouths
yeah but they're great yeah they're
marvelous you might have to describe
what a potty mouth is though
yeah a potty mouth is someone who has a
tendency to use swear words or bad words
freely without hesitation yep
puta this puta that
yeah exactly yeah me cago en oi su puta madre
en todo
and everything yeah okay I've got one
last question for you umm and this is this is
something that I have suffered with as a
language learner and I think a lot of people
have ok and it's overcoming the
embarrassment of speaking with with
native speakers umm especially when
you're in a group
how would you umm say that you can
overcome that okay well I've got two tips the
first one is alcohol umm if you feel
comfortable drinking if you feel more comfortable
after you've had a drink use it to your
advantage umm a little bit to practice now
that's not okay for everyone not
everyone likes drinking sure so and you
wouldn't you wouldn't recommend it
everyday no not at all
not at all but I was you know
like a first date
normally you would meet in a bar and
have a drink to loosen yourself up
wouldn't you sure same with speaking english
umm i actually had a drink before one of
my 9am I had a gin and orange juice with
breakfast before 9am spanish oral exam
95% nailed it but apart from that just
you need to be shameless like just be
shameless if people are if people laugh at
you laugh with them and learn to laugh at
yourself umm enjoy your mistakes use
them as anecdotes so you can then later
on make people laugh about this
hilarious mistake you made in English
exactly yeah alright well thank you very
much thank you for having me
it was lovely to chat to you
It's been a real pleasure, I'll see you soon I hope
yep definitely you might seem a bit more
of me on this channel
yeah and you might see a bit more of him
on my channel so thank you very
much for watching I hope you enjoyed
that and I hope you learnt something from
this lesson err remember to click
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Charlie and I have been fans since we
started i've been a fan of yours since you
started well it's a mutual you remember my comment
i know yeah I do very early on
I was a amazed yeah she had 20,000
subscribers and we had like five and she
wrote a really nice comment like you're
going to do really well
well they are doing really well but you
know the channels really unique it's
different so I definitely think big
things are going to come of this channel
thank you very much Lucy I appreciate it
so see you again soon folks and have a
lovely day
bye bye
Yeah okay real sorry mate
Charles Baxter
so shit